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Vancouver’s rebel school trustees — led by Vision Vancouver firebrands Patti Bacchus and Mike Lombardi — have had a chip on their collective shoulders for years, double-daring the Liberal government to go ahead and knock it off. And for years, the Liberals refused to rise to the bait. The government had plenty of opportunity to fire the […]

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Re: Clinton won first U.S. presidential debate, Letters, Sept. 28 I agree with letter writer George Pearson that Hillary Clinton looked better than Donald Trump during the first U.S. presidential debate, but that was with partisan help from the moderator Lester Holt, who asked him leading questions numerous times while sparing Clinton — who was […]

Gregor Robertson’s green obsession should be a grave concern for Vancouver taxpayers trying to make ends meet. Lost in the hubbub over housing prices in the Lower Mainland this summer was the Vision-dominated city council rubber stamping its Renewable City Strategy, committing Vancouver to eliminating natural gas within city limits by 2050. Robertson wants a 70-per-cent […]

Many people hearing the complaints of Point Grey Road residents concerning Vision Vancouver’s decision to spend another $6.4 million on their “legacy” bike route — this time to widen a sidewalk, which includes axing dozens of trees — are apt to roll their eyes. Wealthy people with what some consider first-world problems usually don’t elicit much […]

The threat of a dozen Vancouver school closures doesn’t seem to worry Premier Christy Clark’s government in the run-up to the next election, probably because the city is not exactly a political hotbed for the Liberals. Of the 11 Vancouver electoral ridings, the governing Liberals hold just four seats. The rest are all held by […]

The number of B.C. MPs remained unchanged for the NDP on election night, but disappointed supporters wondered what might have been had the party not tanked in the polls during the 11-week campaign. Longtime supporters such as political commentator Bill Tieleman blamed the drop from first to third place Monday on a “front-runners” strategy that was playing it too safe.

Longtime Vancouver city manager Penny Ballem has been dismissed. The parting of ways between Ballem and the city was announced Tuesday in a release, citing Ballem’s departure as the result of a “senior leadership transition at City Hall” that had been voted on and decided by city council earlier in the day at an in-camera meeting.

Sorry ladies, but it turns out Vancouver’s most eligible bachelor is no longer single. Those interested in Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson’s romantic life since he separated from his longtime wife last spring were tossed a tasty nugget of information Tuesday.

Shelly Moffat doesn’t recognize her Kitsilano neighbourhood any more. The homes are empty. The streets are like investment portfolios. And Moffat believes that in this part of Vancouver families like hers are becoming historical artifacts.

Kyle MacDonald thinks the way the Vancouver taxi business operates is so downright absurd there was only way to mock it. He converted his own car into a free taxi cab. and drives it around the city wearing a chicken costume.

Mayor Gregor Robertson overcame adversity in the toughest campaign of his career to win a third term at Vancouver City Hall. It was a gruelling fight for Robertson, who held off surging NPA challenger Kirk LaPointe but lost one Vision seat on council, with a Green and three NPA councillors topping the polls. With only mail-in votes left to count, Robertson, who had about 54 per cent of the vote in the prior two elections, had 83,281 votes and LaPointe trailed with 72,966.

Vancouver’s heated civic election campaign has drawn a strong turnout to expanded advance polls. City officials on Thursday said more than 38,550 people cast ballots, a 98-per-cent increase over advance voting in the 2011 election, when 19,484 ballots were cast.

Vision Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson has issued a last-minute impassioned apology to voters, saying he has heard their criticisms of his administration, and acknowledged he has “overstepped” in some areas of his party’s strident agenda over the last six years.

VANCOUVER — Mixed in with the usual debates about property taxes and public transit, pipeline politics have made their way into Vancouver-area municipal election campaigns, with candidates weighing in on a plan to expand an existing line from Alberta’s oilsands.

One of Mayor Gregor Robertson’s biggest financial supporters, Wall Financial Corporation, is asking “all associates” to vote for Robertson and Vision Vancouver this Saturday, according to a company memo obtained by The Province.

Embattled Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson got some high-placed help Sunday in the form of former B.C. premier Ujjal Dosanjh. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson got some high-placed help Sunday in the form of former B.C. premier Ujjal Dosanjh.

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